Re: What's left over.

Pavel Machek
2002-10-31T22:02:45Z

Hi!

> > > ext2/ext3 ACLs and Extended Attributes
> >
> > I don't know why people still want ACL's. There were noises about them for
> > samba, but I'v enot heard anything since. Are vendors using this?
>
> Because People Are Stupid(tm). Because it's cheaper to put "ACL support: yes"
> in the feature list under "Security" than to make sure than userland can cope
> with anything more complex than "Me Og. Og see directory. Directory Og's.
> Nobody change it". C.f. snake oil, P.T.Barnum and esp. LSM users

Okay... Have ~/bin/phonebook and I'd like it to be rw- to me, r-- to
jarka and mj, and --- to everyone else. How do I do that without ACLs?
Adding a group is root-only operation.

This seems like a pretty common situation to me, and current solutions
are not nice. [I guess ~/bin/ with --x and
~/bin/my-secret-password-only-jarka-and-mj-knows/phonebook would solve
the problem, but...!]
Pavel
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